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List of scholarly work pertaining to executive appointment and removal power
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The appointment and removal power refers to the authority U.S. presidents have to control the officers who oversee administrative agencies. The U.S. Constitution, Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court have placed limits on the president's power to staff his administration and to fire agency leaders.
The appointments clause in Article II of U.S. Constitution gives the president the power to nominate officers of the United States. That part of the Constitution also empowers the U.S. Senate to block appointments if senators do not consent to the president's nominee. Congress also has the constitutional authority to put the president, courts, or department heads in charge of appointing inferior officers. After the U.S. Supreme Court decided Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935), Congress limited the president's ability to fire the heads of independent federal agencies.
Articles about executive appointment and removal power
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See also
- Appointment and removal power (administrative state)
- United States Supreme Court
- Administrative state
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